[NTLUG:Discuss] Bye Bye Mickeysoft

[kbrannen@gte.net]

TJ Davis wrote:
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> 
> (1)  I love playing around with video capturing and I have been playing 
> around with XAWtv but it just is not doing the trick.  I am going to 
> check out Broadcast 2000 when I get   home this evening but I am not 
> even sure if it supports video capturing and it is not being developed 
> any longer according to what I have read.

This was discussed in a thread (started by Madhat) last week.  There were a 
couple of suggestions there.

> 
> (2)  This is pretty cheesy but I have not had much luck with cd burning 
> in Linux.  I know you have to install what seems to be a scsi 
> compatibility layer if you are using IDE drives, which I am but I have 
> only been able to burn audio tools.  The only catch is that I refuse to 
> use the command line to burn cds.  I love it for most things but it just 
> is not convenient when burning cd's ( I dig the drag-n-drop feature).

Chris mentioned Xcdroast.  I've never tried it.  As I tend to live on the 
command line, I have a shell script called "mkcd".  As soon as I have 
everything in a single directory (drag-n-drop via konqueror to get it there if 
you want), I just cd to that dir and as root run "mkcd", it does everything 
automatically.  You're welcome to the script if you want it.

As for making the CD burning work, yes, you need the SCSI emulation layer 
working.  I use Suse8.0 and it was pretty easy.  The only thing that prevented 
it from working out of the box was that I needed to add 1 line to my lilo.conf 
file.  My entry looks like:

image = /boot/vmlinuz
     label = linux
     append = "hdb=ide-scsi"
     initrd = /boot/initrd
     root = /dev/hda3
     vga = normal

As you can guess, my CD burner is /dev/hdb.  If your kernel doesn't have the 
SCSI emulation module compiled in, I guess you'd have to do that too.  That 
was already in my kernel, but hunting that append line down was a bit 
frustrating. :-)

Good luck!
Kevin